Pueches miles



(No Model.)

P. MILES.

HOOK.

' No. 280,388. Patented July 8, 1883.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E.

PUROHES MILES, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

HOOK.

SPEGIFIGATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 280,388, dated July 3, 1883.

Application filed August 15, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/r Be it known that I, PURoHEs MILEs, a citizen of the United States, residing at No. 44 Ormond Place, Brooklyn, New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Single Hooks, (for which I have obtained no foreign patent,) of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in means for attaching hooks provided with a screw-point for attaching; and the obj ect of my invention is to provide a suitable bearing for the hook. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which the figure is aperspective view of the a single hook.

Similar letters refer to similar, parts throughout.

A is the arm of the hook H, provided with the screw-point S; B, its bill; B, its brace E, its yielding bearing, provided with an eye, D. As the hook is being screwedinto position the eye D and the yielding or spring extension E give,thereby allowing the screw to pass into the Wood far enough to give a requisite bearing and allow the bill of the hook to have the prop- "e'r upright position, and, by screwing out or in, the stiffness of the hook may be diminished or increased accordingto the weight to be sup- "ported, giving a feature of adjustability.

I am aware of the invention patented to Lash in United States Letters Patent No. 228,652,

dated June 8, 1880. In that invention the hook is engaged with a screw-head or screwplate in place, by means of an eye formed on the hook-arm, which holds the hook in one fixed position, and itself forms the bearing of the hook. It also has a yielding base for the brace of the hook, provided with an eye which encircles the hook-arm. This last-mentioned.

, eye is not, however, the bearing which keeps the hook in place, since it is intended to yield and give motion to that part of the hook after the hook is in place; and the lower part or 45.

base of the brace being coiled or otherwise formed so as to have the action of a spring at all times, while being put in place and afterward in use, this hook can neverbe brought to a solid or stable bearing, and is not intend ed to be. In my invention the eye and yielding bearing co-operate with the screw-point to give a sufficiently-rigid bearing for the hook without motion when the screw-point is properly inserted, and it enables me to effect asolid bearing, with the bill of the hook upright, without tearing the wood, as may be done where there is a solid or unyielding shoulder on the hook, for the brace B is, as to itself, rigid and Without spring, so far as the strength of its material permits, while the eye D and part E are made to yield until a sufficiently-rigid bearing is reached at or near the point where E and B unite, thus giving support to the brace. If the pressure then be further increased by turning the hook and screw again, owing to the bent form of the wire at the bill B, there may be a tendency to yield slightly at that point, and if there is such a tendency developed it will further stiffen and support cember 12, 1881, Serial N o. 47 ,637 from which it is withdrawn, leaving in the original applition only subject-matter relating to a double hook, which subj ect-matter is herein and hereby, so far as this application is concerned, disclaimed to the extent covered by the claims allowed in that case, and no farther.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

' 1. A hook provided with a screw-point for attachment, and a spring-bearing for the purpose of adjusting the position of the hook.

2. A hook made from single piece of wire, one end of which forms a screw attachment, and the other end is adapted to slide upon the main portion of the hook and form a springbearing.

3. The hook H, consisting of the arm A, the bill B, the brace B, screw-point S, yielding bearing E, and eye D.

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